Here is an interesting article on
the issue of hijab in France. At the height of this controversy, more than
sixty public personalities expressed their outrage at the hijab and appealed to
the French president to ban it altogether. The hypocrisy of these individuals
is astonishing as their illogical feminist campaigns only spring into action
when it is against Muslims or the Islamic religion. Their claims to uphold
freedom and liberty are trampled upon in their pursuit to ‘free’ our Muslim
sisters of their obligation and become naked animals like them.

“And never will the Jews or the
Christians approve of you until you follow their religion. Say, “Indeed, the
guidance of Allah is the [only] guidance.” If you were to follow their desires
after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have against Allah no
protector or helper.” (2:120)

If they were so in favor of women’s
rights, then why do they not let Muslim sisters cover themselves up just like
they desire to reveal themselves? Why didn’t we hear anything from them when
women would get raped and killed for years in Somalia but as soon as the
Islamic Courts came into power, enforced the hijab and punished criminals
according to the shariah, we hear their slogans of women being oppressed and
their need to be ‘liberated?’

According to a National Domestic
Violence Hotline survey, 4 million American women experience a serious assault
by a partner during an average 12-month period. More than three women are
killed by their husbands and boyfriends everyday. Alsointhis
same disbelieving countryof America, as many as 324,000 women
each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy. Read more of these shocking statistics!

And finally recall this 1992
statement from the Rev. Pat Robertson, offering his views on feminism. He
states: feminism is a “socialist, anti-family political movement that
encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice
witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”

So we say to these people, clean up
your front lawn first before you even glance in our direction.

Excerpts below:

“A kind of aggression.” “A successor
to the Berlin Wall.” “A lever in the long power struggle between democratic values
and fundamentalism.” “An insult to education.” “A terrorist operation.” These
descriptions–by former French President Jacques Chirac; economist Jacques
Attali; and philosophers Bernard-Henri Lévy, Alain Finkielkraut and André
Glucksmann–do not refer to the next great menace to human civilization but
rather to the Muslim woman’s headscarf, which covers the hair and neck,
or, as it is known in France, the foulard islamique…

“The decade-long debate in France
over the foulard was marked by three specific controversies. The first erupted
in October 1989, when Ernest Chénière, the principal of a high school in
Creil, north of Paris,expelled three students: Samira Saidani and Leila
and Fatima Achaboun. The reason for the expulsion, Chénière claimed, was that
he had to enforce laïcité, the French notion of secularism, in the
school. The national debate that followed took place within the context of the
fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the West’s confrontation with Iran, on the one
hand, and the celebration of the bicentennial of the French Republic, on the
other.

At the time that France’s attention
was focused on three teenage girls with headscarves, the country had more than
3 million Muslims. French-Algerian novelist Leïla Sebbar, writing in Le
Monde, qualified the controversy as “grotesque.” In the end, the Socialist
Lionel Jospin, who at that time was minister of education, chose to let the
courts decide the case. The Conseil d’État eventually ruled that students could
not be refused admission simply for wearing head scarves, but it also gave
teachers and principals the power to decide, on a case-by-case basis, whether
such signs of religious affiliation were permissible….”

“…The third and most recent foulard
controversy occurred in 2003, when two teenage sisters, Alma and Lila Lévy,
were expelled from their high school in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers for
refusing to take off their headscarves. The Lévy sisters are the daughters
of a lawyer who considers himself “a Jew without God” and a Kabyle teacher who
had been baptized a Catholic during the Algerian war. The girls had converted
to Islam after their parents’ separation and had donned the scarves as part of
that process. In an interview with Le Monde, the girls’ father declared,
“I am not in favor of the headscarf, but I defend the right of my children
to go to school. In the course of this business I’ve discovered the hysterical
madness of certain ayatollahs of secularism who have lost all their common
sense…

There is in France today a pervading
hypocrisy that invokes freedom of expression when cartoonists from Charlie
Hebdo or France Soir offend Muslim sensibilities but remains
stubbornly quiet when a Muslim woman’s right to dispose of her body as she
wishes is denied. This is the same hypocrisy that calls soccer star Zinedine
Zidane a French citizen without any qualifications but refers to Zacarias
Moussaoui as a French citizen of Moroccan origin. It is the same hypocrisy that
organizes support committees for teachers in Flers who refuse to teach girls wearing
the foulard but does not appear to care that 40 percent of French youths living
in the largely impoverished and North African banlieues are unemployed.
It is the same hypocrisy that celebrates the work of North African soldiers in
the fight against the Nazis in World War II but until last year refused them
the same army pensions as their French counterparts. It is the same hypocrisy
that condemns humorist Dieudonné for his abhorrently racist remarks on Jews but
condones former Le Point editor Claude Imbert when he says, “I am
something of an Islamophobe and I’m not embarrassed to say so…”

“More than sixty public
personalities–including actresses Emmanuelle Béart and Isabelle Adjani,
philosopher Élisabeth Badinter, former government ministers Corinne Lepage and
Yvette Roudy, and activist Fadela Amara–appealed to Chirac in the pages of Elle
magazine to pass a law banning the foulard (hijab)…”